PARIS THE SECRET HISTORY - sex, drugs and revolution

Andrew Hussey author of "Paris the Secret History" (which I have still not read) talks with Terrance Gelenter. Seems Hussey and I have something in common, I also, for better or worse fell in love with the Barbès/Goutte d'Or area on my many visits from London before I came to live here. Fun to visit but maybe not such a good base camp for a quite-young ingénue's first months as a Parisienne....that's another story.

According to frisky Andrew; "My notion is that partly why people are attracted to Paris is not simply because of the monumental, museum aspect of the city but because the city gives them something, a sense of transgression or transcendence or drugs, sex or inspiration that other cities don’t provide in the same way."

C'est vrai, n'est pas?

Andrew Hussey will be in Paris on Thursday 19th April to give a talk on the marginal and subversive elements in the city; insurrectionists, vagabonds, sexual outsiders and criminals. YIPPEE!
Hotel L’Horset L’Opéra, 18 rue D’Antin, Paris at 6pm - 8:pm
Tickets thru organisers Expat-Paris: 20 euros
Complimentary appetizers, no-host full bar